By Pepper Parr
BURLINGTON, ON. March 14, 2013 You may remember all the hoopla about the collecting of local artifacts and having a plaster casting made of most of what was brought in for Peter Powning to consider as part of the Spiral Stella that will be placed outside the Performing Arts Centre sometime this summer.
People showed up with the darndest things, which Powning made a plaster impression of and then headed back to his secluded studio in New Brunswick where the work of an artist gets done.
Do you recognize anything? Was something you took in part of this casting? There are more to come. There is part of the city crest in there; is that the key to Brant House? Who owned that tie and who used the paint brush – and that baby’s foot impression – where did it come from?
The first glimpse of those castings can now be seen.
Do you recognize anything there? What you are looking at is one of castings that will be attached to the spiral when it is fabricated.
Dan Lawrie put up a significant portion of the money needed to pay for the creation of the Spiral Stella. It’s coming along just fine and Dan is a happy camper.
The sculpture was financed by the city out of its public art fund and a generous contribution by Dan Lawrie, president of a Burlington – Hamilton based insurance corporation.
